BeHygeia Salon by Lycent Lai is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2022 Bronze A' Design Award in Interior Space and Exhibition Design Competition Category.

BronzeInterior· 2022

BeHygeia Salon

by Lycent Lai

Client: Lycent Design Studio

Bronze A' Design Award Winner in Interior Category

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The Design

About BeHygeia Salon

BeHygeia is a beauty salon interior located in Shanghai. The project covers 288 square meters. The layout is irregular and inspired by the form of grapes. Curved walls and simple geometry create soft lines through the space. The public area is almost white, and the curved plan gives it a sense of ceremony. Scattered lights form interlaced light and shadow. Bold blue and green in the lamps and niches connect the inside and the outside. The main materials are art paint, stainless steel corrugated board and wallpaper.

The Recognition

About the Bronze A' Design Award

BeHygeia Salon is a Bronze A' Design Award winner, a highly prestigious recognition granted to outstanding designs distinguished by creativity, ingenuity, and astuteness. Bronze winners are amply skillful and strikingly creative artifacts that authenticate the vast experience, imagination, and resourcefulness of their designers. BeHygeia Salon is expected to be a highly regarded, admired, and cherished object that is notably professional and innovative. This Bronze A' Design Award-winning design incorporates best practices in art, science, design, and technology, and is excellent for its attention to detail. BeHygeia Salon splendidly satisfies needs, touches desires, charms feelings, and appeals to curiosity.

Image Analysis

Color Temperature: NeutralSymmetry: HorizontalBackground: Top and Bottom

Behind the Design

Press Kit

Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

Unique Properties: Looking at the arc outside, people will have the visual experience of grace and beauty, while they will have the centripetal force, looking at it inside. In the almost pure white public space, the curvilinear layout brings out the gorgeous sense of ceremony. With combination of virtuality and reality formed by the interlaced lights and shadows from the scattered lights, as if time becomes slow, people can calm down and have a dialogue between their own bodies and souls.
Dimensions & Packaging: The project covers a total of 288 square meters.
Tags: Interior, Commercial, Beauty Salon, Modern, Simple, Natural, Art
Production Technology: The main materials in this project are art paint, stainless steel corrugated board, wallpaper.
Design Challenge: What the distinctive arc adds to the space is not only a sense of interest and beauty, but also uniqueness and vitality.
Research: Here is attractive as the customers can to a great extent alleviate their exhaustion after work all day long, with the help of the soft and warm colors, comfortable and pleasant environment. They can feel relaxing with the beauty and stylish life experience in such a comfortable environment. With the free blending of colors, the space is full of the modern, elegant and stylish atmosphere.
Inspiration: The designer of this project inspired by grape to design the layout of the irregular space, using the curved wall and geometry to show the gently beautiful feminine curves. At the very beginning of the design process, the designer mainly aimed at getting rid of the concept of traditional beauty salons and creating a beauty salon that integrates avant-garde, fashion and creative consumption.
Project Duration: The project started in August 2020 in Shanghai and finished in December 2020 in Shanghai.
Operation Flow: The bold blue and green in the lamps and niches echo the colors of the internal public areas, forming an effect of connecting the inside and outside. The metal baseboard makes the space more modern and avant-garde, to further enhance the quality feeling of the space.
Patents: Copyrights belong to Jianing Zhang, 2020.
Team Members: Chief Designer: Lycent Lai
Image Credits: Image #1: Photographer Jianing Zhang, BeHygeia, 2020.
Image #2: Photographer Jianing Zhang, BeHygeia, 2020.
Image #3: Photographer Jianing Zhang, BeHygeia, 2020.
Image #4: Photographer Jianing Zhang, BeHygeia, 2020.
Image #5: Photographer Jianing Zhang, BeHygeia, 2020.